Missing thousands separator

[Valloric]

Thank you for creating this package! :)

I have a minor request: NIST guidelines for SI Unit style rules and conventions state:

#16 Digit spacing
The digits of numerical values having more than four digits on either side of the decimal marker are separated into groups of three using a thin, fixed space counting from both the left and right of the decimal marker. Commas are not used to separate digits into groups of three.
proper: 15 739.012 53
improper: 15739.01253
15,739.012 53

Thus, #qty[123456][m^2] should produce a space between 123 and 456.

[janekfleper]

Hey, thanks for your request! :)

This feature is actually already implemented in the dev branch. I just didn't have time so far to release this as v0.2 of the package. The package itself is already done but I still have to rewrite the documentation/manual because the API changed significantly. Instead of individual parameters such as decimal-separator, uncertainty-mode etc. there are transformation and formatting functions to manipulate the numbers and units. I will show some snippets to enable the digit grouping below.

If you are using Typst on your machine, you can already use the digit grouping by installing the package locally. The grouping is not enabled by default (yet), you have to add the function group-digits() to the number format. There are multiple approaches to achieve this (If you are interested in some technical details, you can check out this post on the forum). You can use the global function configure() that will store the configuration in a state. These will just be the defaults for the transformation and the formatting. You can still override this individually for each number, unit or quantity.

#import "@local/fancy-units:0.2.0": *

#configure(
  num-format: (
    group-digits,
    format-num,
  ),
)

The second approach is to override the functions num(), unit() and qty() for the entire document. This will also just set the defaults and you can still change everything for each function call.

#import "@local/fancy-units:0.2.0": *

#let num = num.with(format: (group-digits, format-num))
#let qty = qty.with(num-format: (group-digits, format-num))

If you want to modify the digit grouping, you have to change the default parameters of the function group-digits(). You can find the parameters and their default values here. As an example, to change the threshold of the grouping to 6 you would use group-digits.with(threshold: 6) instead of just group-digits for the configuration.

[Valloric]

Awesome to hear it's already implemented! :)

I hacked something together as a temporary workaround so I'm good for now. I can wait for the next release, no rush.

Thanks again for the useful package!

[mewmew]

Also really happy to see the thousands separator already being implemented!

I've started using the dev branch and look forward to the 0.2.0 release <3

[MConfuse]

@janekfleper Is there an ETA for the 2.0 release? I just tried dabbling with the dev branch and it blew everything up lmao.